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23 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Alito did not recuse himself from a 2014 case involving Singer and voted with the majority in Singer’s favor. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
True, in the past, winning nominees have sought to build party unity by selecting their chief rival for the nomination as a running mate. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The filter also requires candidates to pledge support for the party’s eventual nominee. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 10:48 am by Neil H. Buchanan
"  That is, the January 6 session allows simple majorities of both houses to find fault with an election under the flimsiest of pretexts and then to recognize their own party's nominee as the legitimate winner. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
No tweaks to the legislation can prevent voting members from deeming electors to be excludible, making it ultimately a political power play.On January 6, 2021, the House was still run by the Democratic Party’s majority, which meant that bizarre challenges to the 2020 election’s results by people like Senators Josh Hawley (soon to be seen running for his life through the halls of Congress) and Ted Cruz were doomed from the start. [read post]
19 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
A decision could reshape the ability of the minority party in Congress to oversee the federal government. [read post]
12 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Her absence has stalled confirmations of some of President Biden’s judicial nominees, given that only judges with some Republican support can move to the floor without her tiebreaking vote on the committee. [read post]
9 May 2023, 12:12 pm by Ryan Goodman
What’s more, some Republican primary voters may also look over the horizon at how voters in the general election will react to his having been proven to have committed sexual assault and accordingly wish to select a more competitive nominee for their party. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee fell apart amid Republican opposition, leaving the party still grappling with a dilemma over stalled judicial nominees that has inflamed some in the Democratic base and complicated the race to succeed her in California. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 6:07 am by Jerry Goldfeder
These absences are not only detrimental to their constituents, but, in a closely divided Senate, they could very well upend the nation’s political balance and a governing party’s legislative agenda. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by Eric Columbus
In the cover letter accompanying his subpoena to Pomerantz, Jordan cited three “potential legislative reforms that would, if enacted, insulate current and former Presidents” from “politically motivated state and local prosecutions. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Public records revealed the majority of Wadsacks’ meetings were with lobbyists, many of whom do not reside in her legislative district. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 5:55 am by Michael Dreeben
In such actions, the Supreme Court held, anyone could ask for such a ruling, whether or not that party had a concrete stake in the controversy. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
(Spoiler alert: It's bad for everybody, including both major parties.) [read post]
26 Mar 2023, 10:00 pm by Guest Author
  Over the same fifty-year period that Araiza examines in the book, the two major political parties have polarized, and in recent years the character of their division has shifted to make expertise itself a central fault-line. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
DNyuz – Sarah Mervosh (New York Times) | Published: 3/16/2023 In Florida, textbooks have become hot politics, part of Gov. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Suppose that Trump is again the GOP nominee or, if not, that the GOP nominee has the same disregard for norms of American democracy that Trump does. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Missing from the agenda: many of the Republicans seen as the future of the party. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Thomas Eagleton, a vice-presidential nominee in 1972, had been hospitalized three times for depression and undergone electroshock therapy, it derailed his chance to be on the Democratic ticket that year. [read post]